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SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

Approved March 23, 1892.

Chap. 97 AN ACT RELATING TO RULES AND ORDERS AND REGULATIONS OF

Regulations,

etc., of the

THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF BOSTON.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The enacting style and method of pubboard of alder- lishing rules and orders and regulations of the board of aldermen of the city of Boston shall be such as said board may by regulation prescribe.

men of Boston.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 23, 1892.

Chap. 98 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF NORTHAMPTON TO ISSUE

1888, 354, § 9, amended.

ADDITIONAL SEWER SCRIP.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. Section nine of chapter three hundred and fifty-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is hereby amended by striking out the word "one", in the eighth line, and inserting in place thereof the word: two, and by striking out the word "ten", in the ninth line thereof, and inserting in place thereof

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Sec- Sewer scrip not

exceeding

the word:-twenty,
tion 9. For the purpose of defraying the expenses and $200,000.
outlays incurred for the purposes aforesaid, or so much
thereof as they shall see fit, the city council of the city
of Northampton is hereby authorized to issue from time
to time scrip, notes, bonds or certificates of debt, to be
denominated on the face thereof, Sewer Scrip of the City
of Northampton, to an amount outstanding at any one
time not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, and
redeemable at a time not exceeding twenty years from
and after the date.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 23, 1892.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY OF SOMERVILLE TO RAISE MONEY Chap. 99

FOR THE CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS

INCORPORATION AS A TOWN.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

money for cele.

versary, etc.

SECTION 1. The city of Somerville is hereby author- May raise ized to raise by taxation a sum not exceeding five thou- bration of its sand dollars, for the purpose of celebrating the fiftieth fiftieth annianniversary of its incorporation as a town, and of publishing an account of the proceedings of such celebration and a memorial history of Somerville.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 23, 1892.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE JUSTICE OF THE EAST
BOSTON DISTRICT COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.100

lished.

SECTION 1. The salary of the justice of the East Bos- Salary estabton district court shall be twenty-two hundred dollars a year, to be so allowed from the first day of January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. [The foregoing was laid before the Governor on the nineteenth day of March, 1892, and after five days it had the "force of a law," as prescribed by the Constitution, as it was not returned by him with his objections thereto within that time.]

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARY OF THE GOVERNOR OF THE

COMMONWEALTH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.101

lished.

SECTION 1. The salary of the governor shall be eight Salary estab thousand dollars a year. He shall not be entitled to fees or perquisites.

Chap.102

Repeal of laws imposing penalty for

pursuing wild fowl.

Penalty for pursuing wild fowl.

SECTION 2. Chapter three hundred and twenty-eight of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect from the beginning of the next political year.

Approved March 25, 1892.

AN ACT RELATING TO THE PURSUING OF WILD FOWL.
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. So much of section six of chapter two hundred and seventy-six of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and acts amendatory thereof, as imposes a penalty for pursuing any wild fowl with or by aid of a sailboat, is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. Whoever pursues any wild fowl with or by aid of a boat propelled by steam or by naphtha, or by aid of a boat or vessel propelled by any mechanical means other than sails, oars or paddles, shall be punished by a fine of twenty dollars. Approved March 25, 1892.

Chap.103 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TRUSTEES OF THE BROMField Street

May sell real

estate.

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN BOSTON TO SELL AND CONVEY
THE REAL ESTATE OF SAID CHURCH.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Alden Speare, William Claflin, Silas Peirce, John O. Bishop, Pliny Nickerson, Caleb G. Beal, Joshua Merrill, Oliver H. Durrell and Albert R. Whittier, trustees under a certain deed from William Hall Jackson to Amos Binney and others, dated the twenty-fourth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and six, and recorded in the registry of deeds for the county of Suffolk, in book two hundred and fifteen, page one hundred and forty-nine, which trustees were appointed by decree of the supreme judicial court of the Commonwealth made on the eighth day of October in the year eighteen hundred and ninetyone, and their successors, are hereby authorized to sell, from time to time, by public or private sale, in pursuance of a majority vote of said trustees, the whole or any part of the real estate now held by them, including the church edifice situated on Bromfield street in the city of Boston and commonly known as the Bromfield street Methodist Episcopal church, and the land upon which it is located or adjoining thereto, and to convey the same by a deed executed by said trustees or a majority of them, or by such officer or officers as said trustees by a majority vote

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may designate, in fee simple or otherwise, discharged from
all trusts or conditions, ecclesiastical or otherwise, and
from any liability to see to the application of the purchase
money. Such sale and conveyance to be made with the
consent of the persons or bodies whose consent to sales
of real estate is required by the discipline and usages for
the time being of the Methodist Episcopal church in the
United States of America; the net proceeds of sale to Disposition of
be held and disposed of by said trustees for the use of proceeds of sale.
the members of the Methodist Episcopal church in the
United States of America, according to the rules and
discipline which from time to time may have been or may
be agreed upon and adopted at the general conferences
of said church in the United States of America, and the
final application of said proceeds, in accordance with said.
rules and discipline, to be a full discharge of the said trus-
tees, the trusts of said deed being thereupon terminated.
Approved March 25, 1892.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE SALARIES OF THE JUSTICES OF THE
SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.104

SECTION 1. From and after the first day of January Salaries, etc., in the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, there shall established." be paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth, to the chief justice of the supreme judicial court, an annual salary of seventy-five hundred dollars, and also five hundred dollars annually in full compensation for travelling expenses; and to each of the associate justices of said. court, an annual salary of seven thousand dollars, and also five hundred dollars each annually in full compensation for travelling expenses.

274, § 1.

SECTION 2. Section one of chapter two hundred and Repeal of 1888, seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight is hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1892.

AN ACT TO REPEAL SECTION ELEVEN OF CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED
AND FIFTY-TWO OF THE PUBLIC STATUTES REQUIRING PRESIDING
JUDGES OF THE SUPERIOR COURT TO REDUCE TO WRITING THEIR
DECISIONS AND INSTRUCTIONS During the PROGRESS OF A TRIAL.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Chap.105

152, § 11.

Section eleven of chapter one hundred and fifty-two of Repeal of P. S. the Public Statutes is hereby repealed.

Approved March 25, 1892.

Chap.106 AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE TOWN OF EASTHAMPTON TO REFUND

Town may refund a portion of a liquor license fee.

A PORTION OF CERTAIN MONEYS PAID FOR A LIQUOR LICENSE. Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The town of Easthampton is hereby authorized to refund to Eliza O'Donnel a portion of the sum paid by Edward O'Donnel, in the month of June in the year eighteen hundred and ninety, for a liquor license, the part so refunded to be in proportion to the unexpired period of the license.

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.
Approved March 25, 1892.

Chap.107 AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE NUMBER OF OFFICERS IN ATTENDANCE

Officers to attend certain courts in Middlesex County.

To give bond to the sheriff.

Compensation and travel.

Authority.

To wear uniforms.

UPON THE SUPERIOR AND SUPREME JUDICIAL COURTS FOR THE
COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX, TO DEFINE THEIR DUTIES AND TO ESTAB-
LISH THEIR SALARIES.

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

SECTION 1. The sheriff of the county of Middlesex may appoint, subject to the approval of the justices of the superior court or a majority thereof, four officers for attendance on the sessions of said court for civil business. Such officers shall when required by the sheriff attend the sessions of the supreme judicial court, when not in attendance on the superior court.

SECTION 2. Each of such officers shall give to the sheriff of the county of Middlesex a bond, with sufficient sureties for the faithful performance of his duties, in the sum of fifteen hundred dollars.

SECTION 3. Such officers shall receive from the county of Middlesex an annual salary of sixteen hundred dollars in full for all services performed by them, and five cents a mile for travel out and home once a week during such attendance, when such distance exceeds five miles one way.

SECTION 4. Such officers shall have all the authority which constables now have by law to serve venires for jurors and the processes of said courts, and shall be allowed in such service the actual expenses necessarily incurred therein.

SECTION 5. The deputy sheriffs and officers in attendance at the superior and supreme judicial courts shall, while on duty in said courts, wear uniforms to be designated by the sheriff.

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